The Academy Awards 2020 Nominees & Winners

It’s been a rollercoaster of a year in film, a year which has seen women and people of colour and minorities break more ground in front of and behind the camera. Of course, there’s still a long way to go in terms of equality in multiple areas, but the movements continue to gain momentum and bring us diverse, educational, entertaining and beautiful cinema. Having said that, the Golden Globes and BAFTAs haven’t provided us with the diversity we need, and now the Oscars have not proven much different, with the Best Director category in particular missing some amazing female and minority talent. While some women are leading the way in few areas such as Best Documentary and Best Adapted Screenplay and there is a little diversity in the inclusion of international films such as Parasite in many of the major awards catergories, it’s still not enough to represent the wider public. We can only hope that the members of the Academy whose job it is to nominate these films improve their decision-making year by year, and that minorities are given more opportunities to fulfill their creative aspirations and bring us more of what we, as diverse audiences, crave to see.

What follows is a full list of this year’s nominess, with the winners highlighted as they are announced on the evening. The Oscars are broadcast live on Sunday February 9th (a little earlier in the month than usual) via NOW TV (you can get a free trial for NOW if you only want to use it to watch the Oscars) and Sky Cinema (Sky Cinema Oscars), starting at 10pm in the UK with the red carpet and the ceremony kicking off at 1am on the 10th. The event is usually repeated around 8am if you don’t fancy staying up to watch.

BEST PICTURE

1917
Ford v Ferrari (Le Mans ’66)
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite – WINNER

BEST DIRECTOR

Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) – WINNER
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
Sam Mendes (1917)
Todd Phillips (Joker)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
Cynthia Erivo (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
Renée Zellweger (Judy) – WINNER
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)
Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) – WINNER
Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Florence Pugh (Little Women)
Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell)
Laura Dern (Marriage Story) – WINNER
Margot Robbie (Bombshell)
Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Al Pacino (The Irishman)
Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes)
Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood) – WINNER
Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1917 (Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won) – WINNER

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Irishman (Steven Zaillian)
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi) – WINNER
Joker (Todd Phillips, Scott Silver)
Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
The Two Popes (Anthony McCarten)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link
Toy Story 4 – WINNER

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Corpus Christi (Poland)
Honeyland (North Macedonia)
Les Misérables (France)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Parasite (South Korea) – WINNER

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Dcera (Daugher)
Hair Love – WINNER
Kitbull
Memorable
Sister

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

A Sister
Brotherhood
Nefta Football Club
The Neighbors’ Window – WINNER
Saria

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

American Factory – WINNER
The Cave
The Edge of Democracy
For Sama
Honeyland

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

In the Absence
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) – WINNER
Life Overtakes Me
St. Louis Superman
Walk Run Cha-Cha

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away (Toy Story 4 – Music and lyrics by Randy Newman)
(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again (Rocketman – Music by Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin) – WINNER
I’m Standing With You (Breakthrough – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren)
Into The Unknown (Frozen II – Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez)
Stand Up (Harriet – Music and lyrics by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1917 (Thomas Newman)
Joker (Hildur Guðnadóttir) – WINNER
Little Women (Alexandre Desplat)
Marriage Story (Randy Newman)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (John Williams)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1917 (Roger Deakins) – WINNER
The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto)
Joker (Lawrence Sher)
The Lighthouse (Jarin Blaschke)
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Robert Richardson)

BEST FILM EDITING

Ford v Ferrari (Le Mans ’66) (Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker) – WINNER
The Irishman (Thelma Schoonmaker)
Jojo Rabbit (Tom Eagles)
Joker (Jeff Groth)
Parasite (Yang Jin-mo)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1917 (Production design – Dennis Gassner; Set decoration – Lee Sandales)
The Irishman (Production design – Bob Shaw; Set decoration – Regina Graves)
Jojo Rabbit (Production design – Ra Vincent; Set decoration – Nora Sopková)
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Production design – Barbara Ling; Set decoration – Nancy Haigh) – WINNER
Parasite (Production design – Lee Ha-jun; Set decoration – Cho Won-woo)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

1917 (Dominic Tuohy, Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron) – WINNER
Avengers: Endgame (Dan DeLeeuw, Dan Sudick, Matt Aitken, Russell Earl)
The Irishman (Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Pablo Helman, Stephane Grabli)
The Lion King (Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, Elliot Newman, Robert Legato)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Dominic Tuohy, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Irishman (Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell)
Jojo Rabbit (Mayes C. Rubeo)
Joker (Mark Bridges)
Little Women (Jacqueline Durran) – WINNER
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Arianne Phillips)

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

1917 (Naomi Donne, Rebecca Cole, Tristan Versluis)
Bombshell (Anne Morgan, Kazu Hiro, Vivian Baker) – WINNER
Joker (Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann)
Judy (Jeremy Woodhead)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Arjen Tuiten, David White, Paul Gooch)

BEST SOUND EDITING

1917 (Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate)
Ford v Ferrari (Le Mans ’66) (Donald Sylvester) – WINNER
Joker (Alan Robert Murray)
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Wylie Stateman)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (David Acord, Matthew Wood)

BEST SOUND MIXING

1917 (Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson) – WINNER
Ad Astra (Gary Rydstrom, Mark Ulano, Tom Johnson)
Ford v Ferrari (Le Mans ’66) (David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow)
Joker (Dean Zupancic, Tod Maitland, Tom Ozanich)
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Christian P. Minkler, Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler)